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The Mishnaic Sotah ritual [[electronic resource] ] : temple, gender and midrash / / by Ishay Rosen-Zvi ; translated by Orr Scharf



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Autore: Rosen-Zvi Ishay Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Mishnaic Sotah ritual [[electronic resource] ] : temple, gender and midrash / / by Ishay Rosen-Zvi ; translated by Orr Scharf Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 296.4/9
Soggetto topico: Adultery (Jewish law)
Rabbinical literature - History and criticism
Women (Jewish law)
Altri autori: ScharfOrr  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Textual studies -- pt. 2. Contextualizations.
Sommario/riassunto: This study analyzes the specific textual formation of Mishna Sotah. Diverging significantly from its origins in the book of Numbers, the Mishnaic ritual was traditionally read by scholars as an \'ancient Mishna\', narrating an actual ritual practiced in the second temple. In contrast to this generally accepted view, this book claims that while Sotah does contain some traditions, its overall composition has a clear ideological and academic form. Furthermore, comparisons with parallel Tannaitic sources reveal the ideological redaction, which carefully selected only those opinions which support its rewriting of the ritual as a public punitive ritual, while rejecting all reservations and opposition to its specific punitive character – even ignoring the possibility of innocence of the suspected adulteress. The author’s groundbreaking conclusion is that, regardless of the form the real ritual did or did not take at the temple, the specific Mishnaic ritual was (re)invented by the rabbis in the second century C.E. From its very inception, it was purely textual, reflecting rabbinic imagination rather than memory.
Titolo autorizzato: The Mishnaic Sotah ritual  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-68825-4
9786613665195
90-04-22798-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827063403321
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Serie: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; ; v. 160.